ABOVE AND BEYOND Providing production power for your money, this switcher keeps you in the driver’s seat
ever designed to be modular. Other Carbonites are fixed-function in terms of I/O count and so on.” Spratling observes that, in the live OB production business, especially in Europe, many companies rely heavily on freelance vision-mixing operators who develop a familiarity with certain switchers and brands over time. “The interesting thing about Carbonite is, unlike other flavours of big switcher, nearly every operator in the world is now familiar with it; they have used it, everybody knows Carbonite. “We knew, if we could come up with a Carbonite that accommodates the requirements of the big switchers, the availability of operations staff is now there. Carbonite Ultra 60 is good for OB vehicles, and probably at least half the price of the least expensive big switcher you could buy before,” he explains. “For somebody who is thinking of replacing a large production switcher right now, in their minds, the choices are only big switchers because of the I/O requirements. This is 60 inputs, but it’s modular, so it could be lower
if you wanted – 36 inputs for example. Beyond that, though, what we have actually put inside has got so much room to grow. “Carbonite Ultra 60 works under automation – it’s part of the Ross solution, based on a software-defined hardware platform, with managed graphics and all the elements we’re famous for these days. I personally think it really changes the paradigm of how you manage a big production – and what it’s going to cost you to do it,” concludes Spratling. “What we’re trying to do is give our customers the choices they want. As far as we’re concerned, success is all about providing choice. If we’ve got the option for you to single out that works for you – achieving your goals within your budget – then we don’t care which one it is, as long as it is a Ross product.”
UNLIKE OTHER FLAVOURS OF BIG SWITCHER, NEARLY EVERY OPERATOR IS NOW FAMILIAR WITH CARBONITE
big? It used to be how many MEs it had – but we’ve now put so many in our medium-sized switchers, that argument is missing somewhat. It really comes down to the I/O count,” says Spratling. “We’ve been thinking we should be able to change the face of the market again. So at NAB, we launched the Carbonite Ultra 60, the first we’ve
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